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The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Aristotle
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)
- Aristotle
Men had sought beauty in many forms—in sequences of sound, in lines upon paper, in surfaces of stone, in the movements of the human body, in colours ranged through space.
- Arthur C. Clarke
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year, Yellow leaves carpeted the lanes and fluttered down upon us as we passed, The rattle of our wheels died away as we drove through drifts of rotting vegetation--sad gifts, as it seemed to me, for Nature to throw before the carriage of the returning heir of the Baskervilles.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
You do not know her, but she has a soul of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
- Soren Kierkegaard
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
- Heinrich Heine
I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
- Henry David Thoreau
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
- Mario Puzo
We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.
- Marty Rubin